Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from parisblockchainweek.com or one of its affiliated website (the “Site”)
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Here at Chain of Events SAS (organiser of RAISE Summit), we take your privacy seriously. Our Privacy Policy, effective from 21/09/2022 explains:When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
- “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
- “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
- “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers), email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information. When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.
We collect information to provide better services to clients and to inform existing and potential clients of events, training, workshops or business support services that might be of interest. For example, when you register to attend our events, receive consultancy support, or sign up to our mailing list, we’ll ask for personal and business information, such as your name, company name, email address and telephone number. The information we request is dependent on the service you receive.We use the information we collect from all of our services for administrative and legitimate business purposes, to provide, maintain, protect and improve our services, to develop new ones, and to protect Chain of Events SAS.
We will use your email address to inform you about our services, such as letting you know about upcoming events or news.We will ask for your consent before using information for a purpose other than those that are set out in this Privacy Policy. We may sell your personal data to third parties that we believe you may have an interest in.We may share personal information with other companies and individuals within Chain of Events, and with selected third parties such as event hosts, business partners or suppliers for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you.
We may share your information with analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site and services.We may disclose your personal information if we have a legal obligation to do so, or to protect the rights and property of Chain of Events.You have the right to ask us not to contact you for marketing purposes and/or to withdraw your consent to direct marketing at any time. You can exercise this right at any time after giving consent by contacting us at hadrien@chainof.events
1. Legal basis for “sale” / marketing sharing and easy opt‑out
We will never sell or otherwise share your personal data with third parties for their own marketing purposes unless you have given us your prior, explicit consent.
Where required by applicable law, any “sale” of your personal data or sharing of your personal data with independent third parties for their own direct marketing will only take place if you actively opt in (for example, by ticking an unchecked box). You may withdraw this consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
If you have given such consent, we may share your contact details and information about your professional profile and interests with carefully selected partners (for example, event sponsors or exhibitors) so that they can contact you about products or services that may be relevant to you.
You can withdraw your consent or object to this type of sharing at any time by:
Clicking the “unsubscribe” or “opt‑out” link included in any communication you receive from such partners where technically possible; and/orContacting us using the contact details provided in this Policy and specifying that you no longer want your data to be shared for third‑party marketing.Once you withdraw your consent, we will stop sharing your personal data with independent third parties for their own marketing purposes and will inform them of your withdrawal where required.
2. Data subject rights under GDPR
If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, or if EU/UK data protection law otherwise applies to our processing of your personal data, you have the following rights in relation to your personal data, subject to the conditions and exceptions set out in applicable law:
Right of access: You can obtain confirmation as to whether we process your personal data and, if so, receive a copy of your personal data and certain related information.Right to rectification: You can request that we correct or complete any inaccurate or incomplete personal data concerning you.Right to erasure: You can request that we delete your personal data in certain circumstances (for example, when the data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, or when you have withdrawn consent and there is no other legal basis for the processing).Right to restriction of processing: You can request that we restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances (for example, while we verify the accuracy of your data or our legitimate interests).Right to data portability: You can request to receive the personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine‑readable format, and you can ask us to transmit this data to another controller where technically feasible.Right to object: You can object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to our processing of your personal data that is based on our legitimate interests, including profiling. We will stop this processing unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or where we need to continue processing for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.Right to object to marketing: You can object at any time to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes, including profiling related to such marketing, and we will stop processing your personal data for these purposes.Right not to be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing: You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you, unless certain conditions are met and we provide you with additional information.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided in this Policy and clearly indicate which right you wish to exercise. We may need to verify your identity before responding to your request. We aim to respond to all valid requests within one month, unless the request is particularly complex or you have made several requests, in which case we may extend this period in accordance with applicable law.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. For example, in France this is the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL). We would, however, appreciate the chance to address your concerns before you approach a supervisory authority, so please contact us in the first instance.
3. Data retention periods
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements, and in accordance with applicable limitation periods.
In practice, this generally means that we apply the following criteria to determine how long we keep your data:
Account and registration data (including attendee profiles): retained for as long as your account is active and for up to 2 years after your last interaction with us (for example, your last login or participation in one of our events), unless we are required by law to keep it longer or you request its deletion earlier.Transaction and billing data (including invoices and payment records): retained for the period required by applicable tax and accounting laws (typically up to 4 years from the relevant transaction).Marketing data (including your marketing preferences and interaction with our communications): retained for as long as you remain subscribed to our marketing communications and for up to 3 months after you unsubscribe, to ensure that we respect your opt‑out and to keep a record of your preferences.Technical and usage data (such as logs and analytics): retained for up to 12 months from the date of collection, unless a longer period is needed for security, fraud prevention or legal reasons.
When we no longer need to use your personal data, we will either delete it or anonymise it so that you can no longer be identified from it. Where we cannot immediately delete or anonymise the data (for example, because it is stored in backup archives), we will securely store it and isolate it from any further processing until deletion or anonymisation is possible.
4. International transfers and safeguards
We are based in the European Union, but some of our service providers and partners are located in countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom or Switzerland, or may process your personal data from such locations. This means that your personal data may be transferred to and processed in countries that may not provide the same level of data protection as your home country.
Where we transfer your personal data outside of the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, we ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect it in accordance with applicable data protection laws. These safeguards may include:
A decision by the European Commission that the country to which the data is transferred ensures an adequate level of protection (an “adequacy decision”); and/orStandard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission (and, where applicable, by the UK authorities), which impose data protection obligations on the recipients of the data and provide enforceable rights for you.In some limited cases, and only where permitted by law, we may rely on specific derogations for data transfers, for example where the transfer is necessary to perform a contract with you or with another person in your interest, or where you have explicitly consented to the proposed transfer after being informed of the possible risks.
You can obtain more information about the safeguards we use for international transfers, and a copy of the relevant standard contractual clauses, by contacting us using the details provided in this Policy.
CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at hadrien@chainof.events.
